The Renaissance Society of America (RSA) is now accepting proposals for individual presentation proposals and complete panels for its 2018 annual conference, to be held March 22-24, 2018 in New Orleans, LA. The Journal of Jesuit Studies regularly sponsors panels at this conference. We are looking to organize panels in any aspect of Jesuit studies in any region, up to the year 1700.
The circulation of linguistic and philological knowledge between Germany and the world (16th to 20th cent.). International conference (Paris, 25-27 January 2018)
Call for Papers: 49th Annual Notheastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference
April 12-15, 2018, Pittsburgh, PA
Session Title: "Interrogating the Native Speaker Ideal in Second Language Curricula"
Session Chairs: Dr. Karen Maxey (Vassar College) & Dr. Amanda Randall (St. Olaf College)
Women in German Expressionism: Gender, Sexuality, and World War I
Collection of Critical Articles
Edited by Anke Finger and Julie Shoults
We are pleased to announce the current issue of our online-journal „Medaon – Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung” (http://www.medaon.de). We are celebrating the 20th
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The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 8 May 2017 to 15 May 2017. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-German. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
EUROPEAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Dear H-German subscribers,
The Central European History Society (CEHS) solicits nominations for the Hans Rosenberg Book Prize. This annual prize honors the best book in central European history published in English by permanent residents of North America. This year’s award considers books with an imprint of 2016.
Patrick J. Houlihan. Catholicism and the Great War: Religion and Everyday Life in Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914–1922. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 287 pp. $102.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-03514-0.
Reviewed by Markus Raasch (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz)
Published on H-German (April, 2017)
Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Peter Marshall, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 320 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-959548-8.
Reviewed by Richard Rawls (Georgia Gwinnett College)
Published on H-German (February, 2017)
Commissioned by Nathan N. Orgill
Capturing the Complexities of the Reformations
Sagi Schaefer. States of Division: Border and Boundary Formation in Cold War Rural Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 288 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-967238-7.
Reviewed by Jason Johnson (Trinity University)
Published on H-German (December, 2016)
Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Stephen Brockmann. The Writers' State: Constructing East German Literature, 1945-1959. Suffolk: Camden House, 2015. 380 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57113-953-5.
Reviewed by Hunter Bivens (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Published on H-German (December, 2016)
Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Of Broken Spines and Difficult Beginnings
Joy Haslam Calico. Arnold Schoenberg's "A Survivor from Warsaw" in Postwar Europe. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. 272 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-28186-8.
Reviewed by Mark Berry (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Published on H-German (December, 2016)
Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Martin Kitchen. Speer: Hitler's Architect. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. xii + 442 pp. $37.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-19044-1.
Reviewed by Paul B. Jaskot (Depaul University)
Published on H-German (November, 2016)
Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Malte Zierenberg. Berlin's Black Market: 1939-1950. Worlds of Consumption Series. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Illustrations. 292 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-137-01774-1.
Reviewed by Matthew Berg (John Carroll University)
Published on H-German (November, 2016)
Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Andrew Wackerfuss. Stormtrooper Families: Homosexuality and Community in the Early Nazi Movement. New York: Harrington Park Press, 2015. 352 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-939594-05-1; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-939594-04-4.
Reviewed by Alex Burkhardt (University of St Andrews)
Published on H-German (October, 2016)
Commissioned by Nathan N. Orgill
Bronson Long. No Easy Occupation: French Control of the German Saar, 1944-1957. Rochester: Camden House, 2015. 268 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57113-915-3.
Reviewed by Julia Wambach (University of California, Berkeley)
Published on H-German (October, 2016)
Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Debarati Sanyal. Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015. viii + 341 pp. $37.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-6548-0; $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8232-6547-3.
Reviewed by Brenda D. Melendy (Texas A&M University-Kingsville)
Published on H-German (September, 2016)
Commissioned by Nathan N. Orgill
Fields of Resonance: Collapsing Memories of War and Genocide
